@Neodarwinian
Lol, and why do I come back to this post? If you think Iran is where my mother is from…then no. Her father was on a diplomatic mission to the country at the time and so her entire family moved to Iran for a period of five years roughly.
Modern times = today. I am not sure what your understanding is.
Um, if you just like to throw out direct accounts of what people have experienced first hand then…it seems you are not very objective.
“In the worst of times the US could not sink to the level of a muslim country that existed in the last 900 years”
Lol, you have to be kidding me… it is one thing when a extremist religious sect take over the country and oppress people and another when it is the norm for an entire country to discriminate based on skin color.
Persian empire? It was the same region of people that have the same cultural values. They are the ancestors of the people living there today. Maybe in a few minute I will post to other examples in the post-islamic days I guess.
If you really think, Islam is the reason for a lot of the problems in the Middle East then you are either bigoted against the region for some reason or you are not very smart. If you have seen the world, you would agree that there are two types of people…good and bad. Apart from the people are very much the same.
Finally I really like this quote by Ghandi. “I like your Christ but I do not like your Christians”.
The values of a religion and the way its self-proclaimed followers follow it can vary greatly and does not represent a religion or its views. There are very few people who can actually be called Christians, Muslims, Jews etc.
Your last sentence just makes me think that you are a Islamaphob.